My students and I have done several experiments to create a disgusting environment. We used a commercially available fart spray. We also made the table very sticky (mountain dew allowed to dry worked best), placed stinky garbage in the trash can, left a cup with dried on yogurt and a piece of chewed gum on the edge, and gave them only chewed up pencils to use. We actually eventually settled on a simpler manipulation: we showed them a disgusting video clip (a bathroom scene from "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist"). Good times. Marie
**************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS), +45 2065 1360 Dickinson College (on leave 2010/2011) http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html **************************************************** From: Carol DeVolder [mailto:devoldercar...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 3:57 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Novel way to increase condom use Darn. Where was this study last year when I needed it ?! I had some students who wanted to see if being in a stinky room resulted in people rating pictures of faces significantly lower than did people in a pleasant-smelling room. They used peppermint for the pleasant smell and after searching high and low, settled on Limburger cheese (in a candle warmer) for the bad-smelling environment. The good thing was that I learned that Limburger cheese smells like stinky feet because it has the same bacteria in it that make feet stink. Liquid Ass would have been much simpler and easier to control. I don't want to know the fragrant ingredients either. Carol On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:55 AM, <sbl...@ubishops.ca<mailto:sbl...@ubishops.ca>> wrote: Is it: a) Distribute them in supermarkets? b) Make them glow-in-the-dark? c) Colour them blue? d) Make them smell like feces? The answer, of course, is (d). Don't believe me? The source is here: Tybur, J. et al (2011). Smells Like Safe Sex : Olfactory Pathogen Primes Increase Intentions to Use Condoms. _Psychological Science_, published online 24 February 2011. Unfortunately, as access is not free and as there is no abstract, you'll have to take my word for it unless you subscribe to the journal. Notes: 1) Actually, they did not make the condoms smell like feces. They made the room smell like feces. They did this with the use of a charming product called Liquid ASS (Could I possibly make that up?) Check it out here: http://www.liquidass.com Psychologists are _so_ creative. 2) What would make them design such an insane study? A hypothesis which says that when one feels threated by pathogens, intention to use condoms is increased. 3) They concluded that their hypothesis was supported. Except it wasn't, because they used as a control only a no-odour condition. They need a control in which the subjects are exposed to a non- pathogenic smell (say Chanel no. 5 or the smell of bananas) before concluding that pathogen threat (smelling feces) makes people want to use a condom. But if they run the needed control, and feces still come out on top, can feces-scented condoms be far behind? Or the marketing slogan, "Nothing says condoms like the smell of feces in the morning"? Stephen I thank Deep Surfer for the alert to us at TIPSileaks. -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca<http://ubishops.ca> --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: devoldercar...@gmail.com<mailto:devoldercar...@gmail.com>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443341&n=T&l=tips&o=9316 or send a blank email to leave-<mailto:leave-9316-177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443...@fsulist.frostburg.edu>9316-177920<tel:9316-177920>.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:a45340211ac7929163a0216244443...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> -- Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 563-333-6482 This e-mail might be confidential, so please don't share it. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: helw...@dickinson.edu<mailto:helw...@dickinson.edu>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797f&n=T&l=tips&o=9324 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-9324-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-9324-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=9334 or send a blank email to leave-9334-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
